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Perhaps you can check out LandCruising Adventure. Website from a Dutch couple travelling for over 6 years in their Landcruiser. They spend 118 days in Brazil and might be still there.

A lot of info can be found at their site as well as on Suite101.com.

Have fun! Hope to get there one day
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Perhaps you can check out LandCruising Adventure. Website from a Dutch couple travelling for over 6 years in their Landcruiser. They spend 118 days in Brazil and might be still there.

A lot of info can be found at their site as well as on Suite101.com.

Have fun! Hope to get there one day
Hmmm :-) Funny, I read the subject of this thread and was going to respond in this manner, Don you beat me to it. I hope you are enjoying Australia?

I would like to add to this that we currently finished our 5 month stay in only Mato Grosso state and a bit in Rondania, bringing our total spend days in Brazil over 240 days. Most problems I have with Brazil is the good food...

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Hey my name is carlos Im from Brazil and Im overland 2 now Im in Mexico coming dow from Alaska a spend 5 months around 4 corners in usa ,bigfooton2wheels.blogspot.com and about Brazil is no problem only the big cities like rio,sao paulo,salvador ,fortaleza, natal but all of them r nice but u need to know were 2 go always ask the guys who works in a petrol station or lorry dreivers about roads and places,they r very helpfull u mybe atract some attention but dont worry they never saw ppl like u hehhehe ,ppl are very friendly specially in countrysides ,big cites gonna b the same like anyother one ,New york,London,Mexico city etc. Exp never been robed in brazil but hv twice in Chelsea (London) .
When I get to brazil I will be around just get in touch and maybe I can help u there .
hope see on road and hv fun and dont worry just watch yourself like in anyother place.
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Loved Brazil

I traveled from the Falls to Sao Paulo and down without any problems. You really just have to do the same as anywhere, don't arrive at night and keep your wits about you.

Funnily I haven't been robbed on the trip but was also robbed just before I left London.

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Cheers for the advice folks, few good websites there with a fair bit of information for me, but I know that what I really need is the usual bit of common sense and a bit of map study before any large city. Some of ye have some good websites, must get off my ass and get it done.
Anyway, cheers, this is Jagermini under the new apt name IronArse,
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